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Uncle Sam's 
Right Arm 



A Patriotic Exercise 



BY 



EFFA E. PRESTON 



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UNCLE SAM'S RIGHT ARM 



A Patriotic Exercise 



BY 



EFFA E. PRESTON 



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MARCH BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, 

208, 210, 212 Wright Ave., Lebanon, O. 






Copyright, 1918, by 
MARCH BROTHERS. 



OCT 18 19(6 @C)D 50579 



Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

Ten girls in zvhite sing, air, "Annie Laurie". 

1 

When war clouds dim the sunshine 

And shadow all the land, 
When our country goes to battle 

With foes on every hand, 
1 Tis then the call comes clear 

To loyal hearts and true 
To lay down their lives and fortunes 

For our own red, white and blue. 

2 
Our lovely starry banner 

Defeat must never know, 
For it stands for truth and freedom 

Where'er its colors blow. 
Then pledge your faith anew 

A vow to Liberty, 
Which shall never cease to bless us 

'Neath the banner of the free. 

Enter Uncle Sam, a boy dressed in usual cos- 
tume. He stands in center of stage while girls 
who sang group themselves at back of stage, 

3 



4 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

Uncle Sam : 

I am America's Uncle Sam, 

Democracy's pioneer. 
I have sent a message across the sea 

That other lands may hear; 
And there comes to us now a call for aid 

For her cause has suffered harm, 
And Democracy turns for protection now 

To your Uncle Sam's strong right arm. 
And I — in turn — am asking you 

What help you will give to me, 
And what will you do to make the world 

Safe for Democracy. 
A splendid army you've given me 

But the fight has just begun 
And men must be training all the time 

For the work is not yet done. 
So teach the little children, too, 

A patriotic zeal 
And they will be ready, if ever there's need, 

To answer a world's appeal. 

Enter 12 small boys in soldier suits. They 
advance to front of stage, Uncle Sam standing at 
one side. At conclusion of speeches soldiers 
step to back of stage. Bach group take same 
positions before and after speaking and singing. 



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Au, Soldiers: 

When each of us becomes a man 
He'll be a soldier if he can. 
1st. I'd like to be a drummer boy. 

I'd beat a charge with vim and joy. 
2nd. I'd be a trumpeter. I'd never sound retreat 
But call the men from hill and glen the 
enemy to meet. 
3rd. I'd love to be a gunner and make the 
cannon roar. 
A lot of gunners, brave and strong, I'm 
sure would end this war. 
4th. I'll be an aviator and like a bird I'll fly 
Within my shining airship, away up in the 
sky. 
5th. I'll drive a Red Cross ambulance and all 
the wounded men 
I'll take away from battle fields, till they 
are well again. 
6th. Some one must feed the soldiers and I 
think I'd like to cook. 
I don't know how to do it, but you learn 
it from a book. 
7th. I'd love to ride on horseback in every 
big parade, 
But when it comes to battles I think I'd 
be afraid. 



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8th. I'd like to be a general, like Joflre, so 
good and wise 
And find myself a hero in every nation's 
eyes. 
9th. I'd like to be as famous as the mighty 
General Foche 
Who leads the allied armies to war 
against the Boche. 
10th. Fd like to lead our army like General 
Pershing, he 
Is just the biggest hero in all the world 
to me. 
11th. I guess I'll be a private. We can't all 
heroes be, 
But anyway, I know I'll serve my country 
faithfully. 
12th. I'll be the color bearer and hold our flag 
on high, 
And always, o'er the battle field, it will in 
victory fly. 
All. We'll serve our country and our flag and 
serve them faithfully 
And all be valiant soldiers when men we 
grow to be. 
UNCiyE Sam : 

Don't fail to help the Red Cross, too, 
Theirs is a noble task, 



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They ease the dying, cure the hurt, 
So give whene'er they ask. 
Enter any number girls dressed as Red Cross 
nurses. They sing air, "Yankee Doodle". 

1. 

We'll bandage you and bleed you, too, 
We'll give you pills and potions, 

We'll bathe your hot and aching brow 
With cool and soothing lotions. 

Chorus. 
Red Cross nurses wise are we 

Red Cross nurses dandy, 
If you get wounded don't be scared, 

You'll always find us handy. 

2 

We'll tend the wounded under fire 

In scientific manner, 
We'll do our best for all who fight 

Beneath our starry banner. Chorus. 
Uncle Sam : 
Children can help to win the war 

If they save each penny and dime. 
If they do without candy and movies and gum 

They'll have a quarter in time. 
And a quarter will buy a Thrift Stamp 

So, children, all of you try 
For every little Thrift Stamp 



8 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

Is a War Stamp by and by. 

Enter 12 girls in white holding green cards 
on which are huge white letters spelling Thrift 
Stamps. 
1st. Tiny little Thrift Stamps, bright and green 

and new, 
2nd. Help us on to victory. Won't you buy a 

few? 
3rd. Reach into your pocket, just a dime each 

day 
4th. Tf you only give it for many things will 

pay. 
5th. Food and ships and shelter, clothing, 

swords and guns 
6th. Till an army, well equipped, goes to fight 

the Huns. 
7th. Save your pennies, children, send them 

o'er the foam, 
8th. Till the war is over and the boys come 

home. 

9th. Are you patriotic? Then you musn't 
shirk. 

10th. Make your pennies soldiers, make your 

quarters work. 
11th. Proud you'll be of helping when the war 

is done, 

12th. So buy a Thrift Stamp every day till the 
fight is won. 



Uncle Sam's Right Ann, 



All. Do your bit for Uncle Sam, Make your 
money fight 
Till the strife is ended with victory for 
the right. 
Uncld Sam : 

Every War Saving Stamp that you buy 

Is a step on the road to Berlin. 
So purchase as many as ever you can 
And the war we soon shall win. 

Enter any number girls in green with letters 

W S S on waist. Letters may be cut from white 

paper. They sing, air, "Coming Through the 

Rye". 

1 
We are stamps of vast importance 

Everybody knows. 

Every sale of us, remember, 

Helps defeat our foes. 

Chorus. 
Saving Stamps you all must purchase — 

Help the war to win, 
So send us smiling on our way 

Until we reach Berlin! 

2 

Save your pennies, dimes .and quarters 
Save them constantly 



10 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

Till you have enough to buy us, 

Send us o'er the sea. Chorus. 

Uncle; Sam : 

If you can't fight your money can — 

Don't own a slacker dollar, 
But send it straightway "Over There" 

'Twill make the kaiser holler! 
Buy bonds, buy bonds for Liberty 

And loan the U S A 
Each cent that you can live without, 

'Twill surely save the day. 

Enter 12 girls in zvhite with red, white and 
blue sashes and gilt paper crowns, to represent 
Liberty. They carry red letters spelling L,ib£rty 
Bonds. 

1st. L,et every patriot do his best and help to 

win the war with zest. 
2nd. Invest your money in a bond, and to your 

country's call respond. 
3rd. Better a loan to win the war than tribute 

to a conqueror. 
4th. Even the smallest bond may save the life 

of many a soldier brave. 
5th. Remember if you do not go your money 

should, so don't be slow. 



Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 11 



6th. To save Democracy we fight so aid the 

cause with all your might. 
7th. You know we're in the fight to stay so 

buy a bond or two today. 
8th. Be generous, it is the due of those who 

give their lives for you. 
9th. Over the seas, amid the fray, their fate 

depends on us today. 
10th. Now let us send with lavish hand our 

money to the gallant band. 
11th. Don't put it off, don't hesitate, next 

month, next year, may be 1 too late. 
12th. So buy a bond for Liberty, and send your 

money o'er the sea. 

Uncle Sam: 

I view with pride my bold marines 

Who sail the raging sea. 
As fighters they are wonderful, 
So fierce and brave they be. 
Enter io boys in sailor costume. They sing, 
air, "Sailing". 

Heave ho ! my lads. We must away 

And anchor raise while yet 'tis day 

For far across the waters blue 

Our bark will bear its gallant crew. 

Our country's foes we gladly go to fight ^ 

While o'er us floats our starry banner bright. 



12 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

Chorus. 
Then here's to our country and here's to the red, 

white and blue 

May it wave in every port the wide world thru. 

Sailing, sailing, over the dashing foam 

Full many a stormy sky shall frown 

Ere the sailor lads come home. 

2. . 

We'll chase the U-boats from the sea — 

They shall no more a danger be, 
And he who sails the ocean clear 
With us to guide need have no fear. 
We're bold marines who dearly love to fight 
While o'er us floats our starry banner bright. 
They may do Sailor's Hornpipe if desired. 

Uncle Sam : 

You all have heard, the story 

How the Minute Men of old 
Were ever at their Country's call — 

So watchful and so bold. 
They carried warning thru the night 

Which led to victory 
And gathered all the patriots 

To fight for Liberty. 
Like them are my Four Minute Men 

Who speak instead of fight 
And urge a listening country 

To aid the cause of right. 



Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 13 

Four Minute Men — Five boys dressed in colon- 
ial costume if desired. 

1st. In every large assembly 

We're always sure to be. 
2nd. We speak on many subjects 

Dear to Democracy. 
3rd. We speak about the Stamps and Bonds 

And urge you all to buy. 
4th. Because it's necessary 

And tell the reason why. 
5th. We thus reach many people 

Who otherwise would say 

"No one asked me to buy a thing" 

And try to shirk that way. 
All. We're like the Minute Men of old 

Altho we do not fight 

We bring a warning message 

That you may aid the right. 

Uncle Sam : 

My aviators rule the air 
They wing their way on high 
And soon they'll drive the enemy 
Forever from the sky. 

Aviators — // boys in aviator's costume. 5 of 
them speak. 



14 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

1st. We're Uncle ' Sam's birdmen, with tem- 
perament strange 
For we're, usually up in the air 
When it comes to a fight with a foe in 

the clouds 
No others with us can compare. 

2nd. We swoop thru the air like a bird on the 
wing 
We circle, we dive, and we rise. 
High up o'er the world with our hearts 

free from care 
We speed on our path thru the skies. 

3rd. If the plane of an enemy ever approaches 
In battle we promptly engage. 
Till the foe falls in ruins, down, down 

to the earth 
Our warfare relentless we wage. 
4th. With nerves that are steady, with eyes 
that are keen 
We traverse the uncharted blue 
And we call to the stars and the moon 

as we pass 
And they twinkle as if they all knew. 
5th. From the skies of the world all intruders 
we'll drive 
And the air raids shall quite cease to be 



Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 15 

When we're finished there won't be a 

Zeppelin left 
To annoy this fair land of the free. 

They sing, air, "Kentucky Home" . This is 
very effective if accompanied zvith appropriate 
gestures, 

1. 
Just gaze on us, for we're aviators bold 

We circle and turn in the air. 

We loop the loop and we dive and mount and 

glide 
And our hearts are gay and free from care. 
Our eyes are bright and our nerves are firm as* 

steel 
We're rising — we're sinking below — 
We show the world that we're monarchs of the 

air 
As far up above the clouds we go. 

Chorus. 
Left — then right — we're swerving — 
And now we drop below 
Then we rise on high, soaring thru the pathlesa 

sky 
Far, far up above the clouds we shall go. 

2. 

My aeroplane will respond to every wish 

It hums as it rises on high. 



16 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

It seems to love thus to leave the world behind 

Like a bird it wings across the sky 

The sun by day and the twinkling stars at night 

Look down in amaze and surprise 

Our hearts will thrill as the wild wind whistles 

past 
While we wing our swift way thru the skies. 

Chorus. 

Uncle Sam : 

A hungry army can never fight, 

So we must feed our men, 
And the one who stays at home and plants 

In every meadow and glen 
And raises the grain to give them bread 

Is patriot, brave and true 
As any soldier who fights today 

'Neath the red, the white, the blue. 

Enter farmers, 10 boys in overalls and straw 
hats, carrying hoes, rakes, etc. They sing, air, 
"Vive L' Amour" . 

1 

We plant and we spade and we rake and we hoe 

All for the soldier boys, 
We dig and we harrow, we plant and we sow, 

All for our soldier boys. 



Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 17 

Chorus. 
Sing of the farmers, the patriots true 
Raising the wheat and the golden corn too. 
Gladly we toil, tilling the soil, 
All for our soldier bovs. 

2. 

We'll feed all the allies till victory is won 

Won by our soldier boys, 
And welcome them home when their great task is. 
done, 

Welcome our soldier boys. Chorus. 

Uncle Sam : 

With helpers such as these 'tis plain 

Our victory is assured, 
And not in vain the hardships 

Our brave boys have endured. 
We'll make the whole wide world today 

Safe for Democracy, 
And the Stars and Stripes shall ever float 

O'er the Land of Liberty. 

All sing, air, "Drink to Me Only With Thine 

Byes". 

All hail the banner of the free, the bonny Stripes 

and Stars. 
Of purity the white stars speak, no stain their 

beauty mars. 



18 Uncle Sam's Right Arm. 

A sign of valor you niay read within its crimson 
bars 

The blue field stands for truth and hope, illum- 
ined by Heaven's own stars. 

2 
O'er it the light of victory shall ever brightly 

shine. 
For freedom, justice and the right, 'twill ever be 

the sign. 
Then may it proudly float on high, this flag of 

yours and mine. 
And may the bonny Stripes and Stars with 

added lustre shine. 



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